2009 Iranian election
commentary

In June of 2009, Patrick Doherty, the deputy director of the
Foundation's American Strategy Program, co-wrote an op-ed in the
Washington Post where he argued that the result of the 2009 Iranian
presidential election may not have been fraudulent, based on a
poll sponsored by Terror Free Tomorrow and the New America
Foundation.[2] Jon
Cohen, of the Washington Post's polling department,
argued for wariness "of a poll taken so far before such a heated
contest, particularly one where more than half of voters did not
express an opinion."[3]

A summary of some of the polls taken before the election is
found below:

Nationwide; stratified using provincial telephone area codes
with random number generation. Eighty-three percent of respondents
reported some (21%) or a high level (62%) of confidence in the
declared election results. Thirteen percent reported little or no
confidence in the results.